Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Library laws were very strict-heavy penalties were attached to any injury of the books and in addition the student on entering the Library for the first time made a solemn oath not to steal, tear or deface any of the volumes...
...choir this afternoon at 5 o'clock, twenty-four boys and twelve men, of course all in surplices. Besides the choir and clergy there were not more than a dozen persons present, who are only admitted by ticket, usually secured some days beforehand. The lovely, though dim and solemn, chapel is small, having seating room for not more than 200 people. The entire evening service of the Church of England was intoned and sung, and a more perfect and worshipful religious service it has never been my privilege to engage in. Two of the boys have voices famed all over...
...Yale freshmen are at present receiving their annual lecture in the columns of the Yale papers, berating them for their indifference and alarming backwardness in the matter of athletics. We cannot remember the time when the performance of this solemn duty did not fall to the lot of the Yale publications. Ancient custom has sanctioned it, and therefore, we presume, had the New Haven college the most phenomenally athletic class ever seen, it would still have to endure from its seniors words of disparagement and exhortation...
...should have enjoyed our visit to Harvard more completely if we had not had the uncomfortable sense of being very conspicuous. To be sure, a procession of sixty girls marching about among those solemn old buildings, is not an every-day sight; but when heads were thrust out of every window, and there were, unmistakably, audible signs of amusement, we wished that we were not altogether such a big, unwieldy body, that we might get speedily out of sight. Now, each student who watched us, if he had met us personally, would, we are sure, have had the manners...
...with tears, our brain still teeming with - no! we will not believe them the creatures of imagination. Dear Tom! sweet Ellen! brave, great-hearted John Breese! life seems nobler from contact with you - we cannot write soberly of it. Here in this sanctum of sobriety, here in strait-faced, solemn 'Book Notices' we propose three rousing cheers for Tom Hammersmith! Three cheers more for Mark Sibley Severance, chronicler! Yes, and three more for 'Fair Harvard!' 'May they live long and prosper!'" Well done, Rip Van Winkle...